Yesterday Jack Smith testified to Congress, “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.”

Today this was found.👇

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The Convicted Felon tries to con the nation again and again and again and again.

A deluded and deranged Trump tries for glory and honor.

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Trump’s $1,776 Warrior Dividend Bonuses Is Housing Money

Donald Trump’s Oval Office speech to the nation Wednesday night was mostly a rehashed collection of rhetoric about how incredibly bad conditions were during Joe Biden’s term and how incredibly great everything is now, on a trajectory of greatness so immense that the mind reels. There was one, and only one, nugget of news nestled in the angry tirade: a $1,776 bonus for military servicemembers he called a “warrior divided.”

Given the president’s well-known love for mailing out checks bearing his signature, you might have assumed someone on his staff came up with this idea, but as Defense One reported this morning, it turns out the “warrior dividend” is really just a repurposed military-housing supplement created by Congress and placed in the fine print of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act:

President Donald Trump’s $1,776 checks for more than a million troops, announced Wednesday, come from Congressionally-allocated reconciliation funds intended to subsidize housing allowances for service members, a senior administration official confirmed …

The senior administration official told Defense One in an emailed statement late Wednesday evening that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to “disburse $2.6 billion as a one-time basic allowance for housing supplement” to all eligible service members ranks 0-6 and below.

“Congress appropriated $2.9 billion to the Department of War to supplement the Basic Allowance for Housing entitlement within The One Big Beautiful Bill,” the senior official said. “Approximately 1.28 million active component military members and 174,000 Reserve component military members will receive this supplement.”

So this wasn’t new money Trump came up with after he realized how sensationally effective his tariff program was, as he implied in the speech, but money that was already more or less out the door. It just so happened that the housing supplement was provided for all active-duty military, so the administration just renamed it and presumably eliminated any restrictions on its use.

You can argue that the megabill and all the money it distributed was ultimately Trump’s doing, so he ought to be able to take credit for it. But he’s sort of double-counting it and playing Santa Claus while he’s at it. Let’s just hope its beneficiaries weren’t misled into thinking they were getting something new in addition to the housing money they were promised by Congress and Trump a few months ago. (New York Mag.)

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The delusional man in the White House thinks he can impose his interpretation of American history on us all.

The worst president of all time insults the man who beat him soundly in 2020, even putting an autopen in a frame rather than placing Joe Biden’s picture on the wall.

The most divisive president of all time insults the man who is the loved of the living presidents, calling President Obama “divisive.”

Trump hangs plaques mocking Biden, Obama along White House Colonnade.

The plaques include insult and unfounded claims about some of his predecessors.

President Donald Trump has installed plaques underneath portraits of presidents at the White House, using them to insult and make unfounded claims about some of his predecessors including Joe Biden and Barack Obama -- the latest in a series of controversial White House changes under Trump.

The plaques, many of which the White House said Trump penned himself, add to what the president has dubbed the "Presidential Walk of Fame" -- a portrait gallery along the West Wing Colonnade -- and describe the tenures of former commanders in chief in an overtly political way.

Trump's most recent predecessors' plaques read the most editorialized. The permanent signs are stylistically similar to the president's social media posts, with sporadic capitalizations and punctuation -- including many exclamation points.

Under Biden, depicted only by his signature written by the presidential autopen, the plaque includes claims such as "Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History," adding that he took office "as a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States" and that "Biden oversaw a series of unprecedented disasters that brought our Nation to the brink of destruction."

Trump also attacked Biden for his economic record, his climate, immigration and foreign policies, including the Afghanistan withdrawal (calling it "among the most humiliating events in American History"). He also said that because of Biden's "weakness," Russia invaded Ukraine, and "Hamas terrorists launched the heinous October 7th attack on Israel."

The plaque also cites what Trump calls Biden's "severe mental decline, and his unprecedented use of the Autopen."

Under Obama, Trump wrote: "Barack Hussein Obama was the first Black President, a community organizer, one term Senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American History."

Obama's plaque ends with a more false claims that he "spied on the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Donald J. Trump, and presided over the creation of the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, the worst political scandal in American History."

The plaques also make two references to Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of State and the 2016 Democratic nominee who lost to Trump. Under Obama's portrait, it says that Hillary Clinton was his "handpicked successor," and noted that she "would then lose the Presidency to Donald J. Trump." Under Bill Clinton's portrait, it says that "President Clinton's wife, Hillary, lost the Presidency to President Donald J. Trump."

Obama had no comment about the plaque. ABC News did not receive immediate responses from Biden and the Clintons for comment.

Many of the plaques were "written directly by the President himself," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement about the new decor.

"The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind. As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself," Leavitt said in the statement.

Trump had teased these bronze plaques during an interview with Fox's Laura Ingraham in November, saying that each would describe what the respective president did during his tenure.

In addition to the changes he has made to the colonnade, Trump has also altered the White House by paving over the Rose Garden, renovating White House Palm Room that was originally designed by former first lady Jackie Kennedy and connects the front of the White House to the Rose Garden in the back and redesigning the Oval Office. He has added statues around the Rose Garden and added ample gold leafing and decor to the Oval Office.

Most notably, Trump tore down the East Wing of the White House earlier this year, making room for a sweeping, multimillion-dollar ballroom that the president has said will be completed by the end of his term. (ABC News)

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Trump and His Loyalists Move to Name the Kennedy Center for Him

The Kennedy Center board, composed almost entirely of President Trump’s allies, voted on Thursday to change the name of the performing arts center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House press secretary said.

It was not immediately clear what effect the vote would have, but it would not officially change the name of the center, which is by law designated the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, asserted that the board’s vote was unanimous, but Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio, a Democrat who is one of the lawmakers granted a spot on the board, said on social media that she “was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition.”

It has been generally understood that the power to change the center’s name lies with Congress. Republican lawmakers in the House had advanced a proposal earlier this year to rename the center’s Opera House after Melania Trump, the first lady. Another bill by a House Republican also proposed renaming the entire center the Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts.

The vote on Thursday was the latest effort by Mr. Trump to remake the center in his image. Earlier this year, Mr. Trump purged the board of members appointed by his predecessor, President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and installed himself as its chairman.

Mr. Trump has since carried out some of the most sweeping changes in the Kennedy Center’s 54 years. Dozens of employees have been fired or quit. Outsiders with few obvious qualifications have been handed top jobs. The center’s head of human resources estimated that staffing was down 30 percent since Mr. Trump took over.

The center’s box-office performance has stalled during Mr. Trump’s chairmanship. Internal sales figures obtained by The New York Times showed ticket sales down by about 50 percent during one typical week in October compared to the same period last year.

Close allies and subordinates of Mr. Trump sit on the board of trustees, including Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff; Pam Bondi, the attorney general; Usha Vance, the second lady; Dan Scavino, the head of the presidential personnel office; Elaine Chao, the former secretary of transportation; and Ric Grenell, who had sought to be secretary of state but instead was appointed the Kennedy Center’s president.

Because Mr. Trump is the board’s chairman, he is one of the members of the board who would have had a vote on whether to rename the center for himself. It is not clear if he participated in the vote, and he claimed soon after that the whole thing was a surprise.

“I was honored by it,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “The board is a very distinguished board, most distinguished people in the country, and I was surprised by it. I was honored by it.” (New York Times).

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Testing the water for Term 3.

MAGA really has taken over CBS.

Don’t watch when JD Vance gets free time. Maybe tip-toe in if you want to see Sam Altman or Wes Moore?

CBS News launches town hall series featuring JD Vance following Bari Weiss’ ratings flop.

Bari Weiss suggests “charismatic” voices like Alan Dershowitz are what CBS News needs.

Following the Bari Weiss-moderated sitdown with Erika Kirk that was a massive ratings flop, CBS News has doubled down on the format and is launching a new town hall series in partnership with Weiss’ “anti-woke” digital media outlet that the network’s parent company recently purchased.

According to the network’s press release, the series of town halls and debates will be called Things That Matter, and the first participant will be Vice President JD Vance. According to a network source, the Vance interview will air in early 2026, with the venue and date to be determined.

“We live in a divided country. A country where many cannot talk to those with whom they disagree. Where people can’t speak across the political divide – or even sometimes across the kitchen table,” the network said Thursday. “THINGS THAT MATTER aims to change that.”

Sponsored by Bank of America and presented by both CBS News and The Free Press, the series will also feature OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore. The network stated that the events will “be held across the country, in front of audiences who have a stake in the topics under discussion.”

The Independent has learned that other CBS News moderators will also host the town halls, meaning it will not just be limited to Weiss. (The Independent)